that deficit, that debt ceiling limit fight triggered the whole process that led us today to sequestration. now we're suffering through sequestration. the congressional budget office has already said if we don't reverse sequestration, we'll lose lose 750,000 jobs. those are the jobs that americans are equit equity expe. we'll lose about.6% of growth. we'll be headed where our friends across the ocean are heading, not expanding, contracting. not crai increasing employment, decreasing employment. the policy is not better off if we had followed their approach. what the democratic budget does, and my colleague from michigan has outlined it very well and with great articulation, it is a balance. that's the way you deal with these issues. it is a balance of revenue and spending cuts that will not harm our economy. that's what we did in 1993 and 1994 when he was a member of the house of representatives. president clinton came to us and said, here it is. we're going to cut spending and we're going to raise revenue. and we passed it. one vote in the house, one vote in the senate. not one republican